Michaela Emch
Michaela is a communication and marketing specialist, translator, cultural mediator, biomimicry practitioner, safari guide, keen naturalist, and biology enthusiast. She is looking for links where people have not yet connected the dots. Her Masters in International Relations, and the capacity for abstraction gained from her MBA in Aviation Management, help her handle the multicultural and interdisciplinary impact of communication across diverse fields of application.
Michaela Emch
Founder at Eclosions; Biomimicry Switzerland; Systems Innovation Hub: Geneva
Anish Mohammed
Anish is an multidisciplinarian who has worked as a medical doctor, bioinformatician, strategy consultant, blockchain researcher, and cryptographer. He has spent the first half of his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols at three different research groups. His research interests include Zero Knowledge Proof systems, Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, and the Ethics of AI. He has been involved in designing or auditing over half a dozen blockchain protocols and more than a dozen distributed applications. He was also an early advisor to Ripple and a reviewer of the Ethereum Orange paper.
Anish Mohammed
Adjutant Faculty at Harbour Space; Co-Founder/CTO/Chief Scientist at Panther Protocol
Prahlad Menon
Dr. Prahlad Menon is a data / AI scientist with cross-industry experience leading and executing data science projects that positively impact bottom lines. He currently leads an AI Center of Excellence in a boutique AI-consulting practice with over 230 employees across the globe that has served over 100 clients in the fields of digital transformation, AI, and data science. He has successfully led data science projects leveraging AI and IoT for clients in healthcare, retail, finance and manufacturing. He has served as tenure-track faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently an adjunct faculty of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Menon has a masters in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in the field of biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, completed his postdoctoral training in physics-based computational modeling and bioinformatics from the department of biomedical informatics at University of Pittsburgh. He has 100+ peer-reviewed publications in the general field of physics-based computational modeling, machine learning, image processing, and statistical modeling of shapes/appearance. He has advised dozens of graduate students on their MS/PhD thesis in fields of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and has taught undergraduate and graduate coursework to 100s more.
Prahlad Menon
Faculty of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh; CEO at QuantMD
Karl Sjogren
Karl is the father of Equity Crowdfunding. From 1996 to 2001, he was CEO and Co-Founder of Fairshare, Inc., which created an online group of over 16,000 investors interested in direct public offerings using its performance-based capital structure, the Fairshare Model. He is also also author of the 2019 book "The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings."
Karl Sjogren
Author of "The Fairshare Model"
Moses Sam Paul Johnraj
Moses Sam Paul is a Co-Founder of TheThirdPillar.Club. With an undergrad degree in Information Technology and a Masters in Public Policy, he is using System Dynamics to research and build a decentralized labor movement protocol to invigorate a community economy. Community is the balance between the state and the market and will be the foundation of the new web3 ecosystem. He firmly believes what Bitcoin did to capital, TheThirdPillar will do to Labor.
Moses Sam Paul Johnraj
Co-Founder at TheThirdPillar.Club
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Shaun co-founded Complexity Weekend to help empower teams to learn Complexity by doing while working to solve the world's toughest problems together. At Microsoft, Shaun leads a team of full-stack (Python/Scala) data scientists and engineers, which has developed access management scoring and anomaly detection systems to enforce the Principle of Least Privilege throughout data centers worldwide. His personal research interests involve combining Complexity Science with Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics axioms to peek at fundamental properties of emergent phenomena.
Shaun Applegate-Swanson
Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft; Co-Founder at Research Mentors; Co-Founder at Complexity Weekend
Taiwo Ayinde
Taiwo has her PhD in Agricultural Economics with about 10 years of faculty experience. She anticipates being able to contribute greatly to the Complexity Weekend community of practice, and has excellent human relations and enjoys creating conducive and friendly atmospheres to work within. She believes creating such environments are critical to alleviating the challenges faced at work and creating a culture where everyone looks forward to showing up for each other each day.
Taiwo Ayinde
Researcher at Ahmadu Bello University
Andrej Berlin
Andrej is the co-creator of the web3 design studio Deep Work. He has been involved in the design of over 100 different products for open source teams, start-ups, and fortune 500 enterprises. He is currently working on a skill-infrastructure project called Deep Skills.
Andrej Berlin
Co-Founder at Deep Work Studio; Co-Founder at Deep Skills
Jen Dodgson
Jen is interested in recreating models of historical societies using modern technology. She is currently working on the DAObi project, an experiment in recreating Han Dynasty political institutions using blockchain technology.
Jen Dodgson
Co-Founder at DAObi
Justin Kline
During Justin’s 9-year tenure at Markerly, he has led the company’s growth, guided its strategic direction, directed its product development, and established its platform and media practice. While Markerly established itself as a pioneer in influencer marketing, Justin spear-headed award-winning campaigns for Fortune 500 brands, Non-Profits, and Government organizations. Along the way, he has come up with a unique methodology that allows for influencer marketing to be holistically integrated within broader media plans to maximize impact, and has developed technology to streamline this process.
Justin Kline
Co-Founder at Markerly
sidcode
sidcode / Siddhant Shrivastava explores (emerging) technology, culture, economics, and policy to connect anything that computes, controls, and networks across scales in our interdependent society. More specifically, he works on ensuring the security, safety, and service of cyber-physical-biological systems. These systems span everything from country-scale critical infrastructures to communities of practice and care such as Complexity Weekend and KERNEL.
sidcode
Researcher at Singapore University of Technology and Design
Jenn Huff
Dr. Jenn Huff thinks a lot about technology past, present, and future, and what it means to be human. She is both a technologist and an archaeologist interested in deep time questions of human evolution and technology change; human-environment interactions; and technology and exchange networks as both responses to and sources of risk. Her recent work within the Complexity Weekend community has centered on bringing lessons of decolonization and anti-racism, as well as a broader explicit discussion of ethics, into the Complexity Weekend community of practice, so that we may construct more complete knowledge and more effective solutions together.
Jenn Huff
Lecturer at University of Washington; Curatorial Associate at the Burke Museum
Dov Tsal
Inspired by non-duality and seeing the importance of harmony in personal and organizational life, my mission is to apply a sense of wholeness in the world around me. Using speech and thought patterns, and Tao-inspired vision, I'll work with you on listening skills, constructive thinking, and emergence. My services to others include: Mentoring (short to mid-term mentoring to scrum-masters, agile coaches, and other leaders), Life-Coaching (discovering and constructing a growth path, opening possibilities and removing obstacles together), and Facilitation (running workshops and meeting that enable teams to reach emergence and discovery).
Dov Tsal
Freelance Tao-inspired Coach, Mentor, and Facilitator
Kai Costantini
Kai is a Biomimetic practitioner and a Talent Advocate. She is a former Executive Search professional specializing in Life Sciences, turned IT Systems Manager, turned IT Project Coordinator, spiraling back into Talent Agent amongst other startup ecosystems. For the past few years, she has also functioned as an amplificator and change agent in open distributed environments, to foster socio-economic transformation with Circular Economy entities at local, national, and transnational levels.
Kai Costantini
Consultant at Natural Patterns; Advisory Board Member at International Council on Systems Engineering
Renzo D'Andrea
Renzo is a strategic researcher, facilitator, and service designer focusing on unlocking the collective impact of communities. His former professional basketball career inspired his systemic approach to problem solving as well as his attitude for enabling learning agility in teams through co-creation. Since 2018, he has been increasingly involved with the web3 space: with Aragon DAO, in late 2021, he became an active contributor, and recently joined the DeepSkills team.
Renzo D'Andrea
Founder and Partner at ChangeTheRiver; Launched Aragon DAO Academy Guild
Jeff Emmett
All Things Decent/ralised. Researching the biggest ideas that will move the needle on meaningful human progress. #CommonsStack, #TokenEngineering #OpenData, #UBI, #RadicalMarkets and #Mindfulness are some faves.
Jeff Emmett
Token Engineering Researcher at BlockScience
Riley Wong
Riley Wong (they/them) is currently interested in distributed cooperative models, public goods and the commons, and emergence in interdependent systems. They have former lives in machine learning at Google, investigative journalism at ProPublica, research at Penn Medicine, and community organizing for queer and trans communities of color. They like writing speculative fiction, making music, and painting.
Riley Wong
Machine Learning Engineer at Google
Kevin Flowers
Kevin has a general tendency to waste time reading about things that generally don't have immediate applications (primarily abstract maths, non-classical logics, and type theory). One noticable trend has been the surprising ability for these ideas to give context to different complex problems (e.g., topological data analysis' use in material science, 3d shape analysis, image analysis, multivariate time analysis, medicine, biology, genomics, chemistry, sensor networks, and transportation).
Kevin Flowers
Co-founder at The Undura Collective; Freelance Data Scientist; Independent Researcher
Julius Doyle
Julius Doyle has a Doctorate in Biocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington, with emphasis in African American Studies, Anti-Racism, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Upon completion of his PhD, Dr. Doyle took on post-doctoral research at SUNY Binghamton in the Medical Anthropology Department where he received DEI training, and contributed to the diversification of the program. Later, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John's University before pivoting to pursue principle Anti-Racism consultation in organizational and corporate environments. Dr. Doyle uses quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to conduct full-service workplace audits and help organizations transform themselves into actively anti-racist institutions.
Julius Doyle
Independent Researcher
Shamir Joseph
Shamir is a Design Thinking Consultant who coaches individuals and organizations in design thinking skills by leveraging experiential learning. He is a member of the teaching team at IDEO U & Simplilearn. Shamir advocates for playful design with a purpose - he likes to call it being Playful with Purpose. He designs activities, workshops & experiences that leverage play to teach mindsets that are crucial for innovation.
Shamir Joseph
Design Thinking Consultant, Teaching Team at IDEO U; Course Instructor at Simplilearn
Alexandra Mikhailova
Alexandra is a PhD student in neuroscience, studying how immune molecules regulate the proper establishment of connections in the brain. She is interested in studying and applying the emergent properties of collaborative art, questions and narrative information management.
Alexandra Mikhailova
PhD Candidate at UC Davis (Neuroscience Program)
Stephen Sillett
Stephen is a multi-scale community development practitioner, who uses contextual drama and participatory arts. His work is underpinned by multi-level system approaches and enactive embodied sensemaking. More recently he has been using Active Inference and non-linear dynamical systems approaches to unify the range of practices he is working with.
Stephen Sillett
Canterbury Christ Church University; Co-Founder at Aiding Dramatic Change in Development; Creator of Infusion Space
Steven Ganz
Steven is interested in natural and artificial intelligence, and how either relates to programming languages. He founded Teamifier, which supports relationships through innovation and vice versa. As a consultant, Steven performed technical and strategic analyses for organizations from startups to research labs of global Fortune 500 companies. He distilled his knowledge of the vocabulary and culture of Silicon Valley as an author of the acclaimed book, Valley Speak.
Steven Ganz
Founder and CEO at Teamifier, Inc.
Marie Applegate-Swanson
Marie is an experience & behavior designer. She leverages awe, curiosity, and wonder as catalysts for personal, collective, and organizational transformation. As a student at the International School of Manila in the Philippines, she witnessed and experienced deep connections that celebrated yet transcended religious, national, and cultural differences - this is at the heart of her work. Throughout her career, she's had the honor of working alongside a diverse group of folks to catalyze transformation, including CEOs of global corporations, formerly-incarcerated folks, kids, government officials, serial founders, artists, attorneys, world-renowned scientists, NYT best-selling authors, unhoused people, and educators.
Marie Applegate-Swanson
Co-Founder at The Virtual Village
Cobus van Rooyen
Cobus is a researcher in complexity science, with a focus on urban systems. He holds a PhD degree from the University of London, with a focus on persistent socio-economic segregation as a complex adaptive system. He is a consultant with Arup and partner at Systems Innovation. Furthermore, Cobus is a chartered scientist with the UK Science Council and a chartered geographer with the Royal Geographical Society.
Cobus van Rooyen
Partner at Systems Innovation
Briony Barr
Briony Barr is a visual-conceptual artist whose work explores process-based drawing, systems thinking and the effects of boundaries and limitations on emergent form. Her practice spans individual drawing and painting, collaborative drawing installation and interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with scientists and musicians. Since 2011, Briony has collaborated with astrophysicist Prof. Andrew Melatos on ‘Drawing on Complexity’, which investigates the visual and social patterns which emerge through large-scale, rule-based collaborative drawing.
Briony Barr
Artist and Honorary Fellow at the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne; Co-Founder at Scale Free Network
Sudebi Thakurata
Sudebi is a meta-facilitator, futurist, educator, and a designer of learning, narratives, and regenerative leadership. She designs experiences, engagement, and environment that allow people to think, have dialogue, make their thinking and interaction visible, and enable them to design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and media. Sudebi has co-founded a design collective, Depicentre, and started a unique pedagogy-, art-, and design-led trans-local initiative, “The Archival City - a site of learning”.
Sudebi Thakurata
Associate Dean at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; Co-Founder at Depicentre Consulting
Probal Banerjee
Probal is the co-founder and CEO of the design-led collective, Depicentre Consulting. He works on the interfaces of business, learning, design, analytics, innovation, and storytelling. With leadership experience across seven countries strengthening his ability to manage cross-cultural and cross-functional virtual teams in complex matrix organisations, he has a passion for driving content- and culture- driven organisations making economic, social, ecological, and educational impact. He has been able to design effective products, services, and solutions, serving customers and building successful coalitions.
Probal Banerjee
Co-Founder and CEO at Depicentre Consulting
Bleu Knight
Bleu is a Research Scientist at New Mexico State University, a Content Organizer with the Active Inference Lab, and works independently as a Research Consultant. She is interested in solving complex problems using data sets that are large and diverse. Her PhD research leveraged informatics to understand the biological identity of neural cell subtypes. She uses augmented intelligence and agent-based modeling to solve problems in academia and industry. Bleu is currently exploring sensory processing and downstream information integration and transmission in biological systems.
Bleu Knight
Organizer at Active Inference Lab; Senior Researcher at New Mexico State University
RJ Cordes
R.J. is a consultant and researcher focused on social systems engineering, sensemaking, research and writing facilitation, and cognitive security. He has contributed research to a variety of government and industry working groups and committees on topics such as gray zone warfare, knowledge management, education technology, and emergent teams. He cofounded COGSEC.org and Remotor Consulting Group, and is currently the research coordinator of University of Washington APL’s Verified Information Exchange Environments program, which is helping to design common infrastructure for web annotation systems.
RJ Cordes
Deployment Strategist at COGSEC; Consultant at Remotor Consulting Group; NonResident Fellow at Atlantic Council GeoTech Center
Muhammad Khurram Ali
Holistic and system-wide intrigue led Muhammad Khurram Ali to switch from mechanical engineering to dynamic, multidimensional modelling of systems as a whole. Development of multi-criteria decision support systems is his research area (his PhD thesis was on this topic). He has completed projects like ‘selecting a country for a new manufacturing plant’, ‘ranking energy policies in economic zones’, and ‘prioritizing industrial decisions in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)’, etc.
Muhammad Khurram Ali
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology in Taxila, Pakistan
Carolina Carvalho
Lead ecologist and data scientist at African Data Technologies. Resident ecologist and permaculture designer at Kumano Shindo GIA. Accelerating our transition to a regenerative future as Core Steward at the Global Regeneration CoLab (GRC). Co-founder at System of Systems Thinkers. Inter-networkweaving a bit all over the place.
Carolina Carvalho
Lead Ecologist at African Data Technologies
Naho Iguchi
As an ecological artist, Naho authors a new urban design methodology, “Give Space,” in order to give back more space and return habitats to other-than-human beings in a beyond-anthropocentric way.
Naho Iguchi
Founder at Give Space Urban Design
Tim Lipp
As a sociolinguistic researcher in remote communities, Tim traveled back in time to the environment our brains are mostly evolved for. That experience put him on a crusade to rejig social systems to be in line with neuroscience. He’s tried and failed as a missionary, financial auditor, tech CEO, and politician. Now he works with tech companies bringing agent-based modeling into their product management so he can make wealthy and powerful friends and learn some good dance moves for his next political go-round.
Tim Lipp
Failed Politician
Jean F. Queralt
Founder and CEO of The IO Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for Data-Centric Digital Rights. Disturbed by the level of intrusion of technology in the lives of citizens, he took the leap in 2018 of starting TIOF to establish a more solid and targeted direction to address Digital Rights from a technical standards perspective.
Jean F. Queralt
Founder and CEO, The IO Foundation
Kilian Woods
Kilian has facilitated workshops for over 45 schools and universities, including IIT Delhi.
Kilian Woods
Founder at Worldology
Natalie Kastel
I am a researcher (MSc) with a profile in Philosophy, Psychology and Systems Neuroscience. I also have a background and a keen interest in the network dynamics of complex adaptive systems and have spent the last year using a biologically plausible reinforcement learning model (Active Inference under the free energy principle) to model the emergence of cumulative culture from joint communication in an ecology of social virtual agents. I have had the immense privilege of learning the fundamentals of deep FEP-AI from Karl Friston and his students, and am currently pursuing a PhD position which would allow me to expand on this knowledge of deep learning architectures and explore the nature of human and machine intelligence from the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience and complexity.
Natalie Kastel
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Matthew Pirkowski
Matthew works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix’s Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software. Presently, Matthew consults on systems architecture, advises companies within the startup space, and writes about topics related to the evolution of human socioeconomic, technological, and representational systems–in particular the emergence and impact of cryptoeconomic protocols, as outlined in his Crypto Beyond Capitalism essay series. He spends most of his free time restoring land and growing food in Oregon’s woodlands.
Matthew Pirkowski
Independent Contractor / Researcher
Vera Hofmann
I made it the core of my business to search with my clients and collaborators for narratives that do work, narratives that fuel the paradigm shifts towards a world where we all want to live in. I help my clients to strengthen trust, so that we create environments where everyone can find and is willing to share their gifts. Environments where taking responsibility and contributing to a greater good feeds our souls and our businesses. I peak with my clients into possibilities that lie beyond traditional centralized power structures. We together discover and apply planetary wisdom.